
Margaret Atwood Quotes
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.
Margaret Atwood
Its very hard for students not to be in debt unless theyve got big scholarships or rich parents. And its called investing in your future, but like any investment its risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you dont invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So its a real dilemma.
Margaret Atwood
Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people cant remember it - if you wanted money you had to go to the bank and take the money out in cash form, and you couldnt take out money that you didnt have. But with the credit card you can spend money you dont have, and that is just so tempting.
Margaret Atwood
Were facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. Weve run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue.
Margaret Atwood
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. Youve been backstage. Youve seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.
Margaret Atwood
